Retellings of the Inland Seas (Feral Astrogators #3) by Athena Andreadis


Retellings of the Inland Seas (Feral Astrogators #3)
Title : Retellings of the Inland Seas (Feral Astrogators #3)
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ISBN : 1936460955
ISBN-10 : 9781936460953
Language : English
Format Type : Paperback
Number of Pages : 284
Publication : First published June 23, 2020

Retellings of the Inland Seas is the third member of the widely acclaimed Feral Astrogators series, following The Other Half of the Sky and To Shape the Dark. The anthology re-imagines Mediterranean and Black Sea stories, from a Minoan exodus through wormholes to Furies on Mars, from space Argonauts to Imazighen and Scythian warrior queens. Inland Seas is the editor’s tribute to her aeon-deep roots, and her effort to reclaim foundational myths considered declassé common property because of long, casual handling that has flattened their echoing depths.

Retellings of the Inland Seas (Feral Astrogators #3) Reviews

  • Paul Weimer

    This is a fantastic anthology that has its authors and stories strongly reflect the diverse and interesting stories of the Mediterranean Basin, and give those stories new and exciting twists and reinterpretations. Part of the fun of reading these stories is trying to tease out just which myths, legends and stories that these SFF stories are based upon--the end matter of the book reveals all, but I counsel you that half the fun is the "aha" moment, of reading anf seeing how old and sometimes familiar, sometimes not stories, are given new casts and new light.

  • Tansy Roberts

    Classic myth meets feminist spec fic in this crunchy, challenging anthology.

    My favourite stories were the most science fictional: Furies on Mars! Argonauts in space! But I found them all all thought-provoking, providing fresh interpretations of some of our oldest stories.

  • Clara

    I’m giving each story one sentence in review or summery to be fair!

    Distant campfires, eternal beacons: this is our introduction, most concerned with the whys these stories might and should be told.

    Into the wine-dark sea: a poem, not an epic like original Greek myths but two pages of words lovely without needing sheer imagery

    Sirens: on a space station in the far flung future, an ai war and a wave threaten to swallow everything alive there, also there’s kissing nanties

    Hide and Seek: a myth I recognize, spacefaring Odysseus and the cyclops with an alien starship and a spaceborn crew


    The sea of stars: a ship is run aground on a strange island, the captain and navigator try to figure a way home through a stranger artifact and dream of greater adventures than this

    Between the rivers: a humanity in the future seeds new worlds with life for colonizations, and this one is begun by a tyrant lost in her own head

    Calando: a singer falls, thinks on his life and space travel is very slow in this future

    One box too many: when disease troubles humanity no longer inside of a convict the nanomachines vaudeville theatre presents a special rendition of bad times with boxes in quarantine


    The fury of mars: the Martian judicial system takes center stage, I don’t care much for its descriptions of people

    Out of Tuaris: a cycle of sacrifice and revenge keeps turning in a temple to Artemis, and the heroes and the Heroes are two different things

    Little bird: cloning and genetic manipulation set an interesting backdrop for childhood friendship, arranged marriages and animations

    Wings: the end of the world has missing husbands, pigeons and a semi messy commentary on industrialization which doesn’t stick but has a interesting enough thread

    The crack at the border: a small story about loss, comfort and duty to the dead neatly wrapped up with an otherworldly boarder

    Unearthing uncle bud: the best weird old uncle every family should have has a plane wonderful idea.